The School of Life

Our encounter with nature calms us because none of our troubles, disappointments or hopes has any relevance to it.

Training the body in an athletic pursuit can give us a glorious sense of physical mastery and momentary perfection.

There are some of us who regularly feel a powerful need to go away and think rather more than is typically allowed or taken to be normal. This business of thinking can seem to us like one of the most meaningful things we ever do. After too long in company, we crave to be alone with our own minds. Raw experience proves too overwhelming, dense, messy, confused or exciting, and, on a regular basis, we long to sort through it, far away from distractions.